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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” – “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare When Juliet utters these words to her Romeo, it is because she is questioning naming conventions. I did the same as I sat in the
We are entering what is known as Hiatus Season in the entertainment industry. This is when businesses slow down and creators have the opportunity to dust off passion projects or work on that script they keep meaning to get to. Want to use your downtime wisely? Morin Legal has some
What Are Trade Secrets? Oxford dictionary defines trade secrets as: A secret device or technique used by a company in manufacturing its products. To dive in deeper, trade secrets are intellectual properties (IP) that include formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic or
Trademarks are one of the four types of intellectual property (IP). The others are: Patents Copyrights Trade Secrets Today we are looking closely at trademarks, but if you’re interested in learning about other forms of IP, you can read more here. What Is A Trademark? Trademarks protect words, slogans, and/or
We have been following public attempts to ban books which discuss sexuality and/or gender identity, including books about the Holocaust (see Maus), in the United States over the past year. Before, efforts were focused on children, pre-K to elementary school; however now, politicians in the state of Virginia want to
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We have all heard this time and again, but does it hold water in the legal profession? In the case of Marvel comic artists, it might. Lesser known artists and writers have been speaking out in recent times as Disney
When you or you and your collaborators create something new, anything new, it becomes your intellectual property (IP). Depending on what type of intellectual property you have created, it will most likely need to be protected in one of three ways, or a combination of the three: a trademark, a
Registering a copyright is something I am always happy to help my clients with but, with a little bit of time and patience, it is also something that you can do yourself. According to Copyright.gov, copyright is “a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon
We’ve all heard of patent trolls. Wikipedia defines them as a party (often a shell company) who purchases patents from usually bankrupt companies for the express purpose of suing other parties claiming damages for infringement, knowing that it is more likely those parties will pay to settle out than proceed
On June 16, 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office launched the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) online. Now, claimants may file small claims alleging copyright infringement of registered (or pending*) works and request monetary compensation. We have been following the CCB since it was written into legislation and earlier, when Register Maria
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